Mind Quotes
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Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.
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According to EXTENDED, the actual local operations that realize certain forms of human cognizing include inextricable tangles of feedback, feed-forward, and feed-around loops: loops that promiscuously criss-cross the boundaries of brain, body, and world. The local mechanisms of mind, if this is correct, are not all in the head. Cognition leaks out into body and world.
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I'm not a politician and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind. I'm just exploring what I see.
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For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.
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The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.
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There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.
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Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.
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I make sure I have ample sleep, so no late nights out, as sleep is so important for a healthy mind and body.
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My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.
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On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't, he said: Do you mind if I mug you here?
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It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.
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My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.
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The mind is still there even when thoughts are not.
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Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.
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As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
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Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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Paradise is a state of mind.
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
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The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.
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What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.
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When I was out there I was never ever alone, there was always a team of people behind me, in mind if not in body.
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Evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.
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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
